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From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickb...@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups: rec.photo.darkroom
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Subject: Re: Bad E-6 5L kits circulating?
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:14:09 -0700
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"Thor Lancelot Simon" <t...@panix.com> wrote in message
news:h298rl$r2h$1@panix5.panix.com...
>I think -- after very carefully *not* ordering another 5L
>E-6 kit
> from Adorama since the last one they sent me was short
> dated (only
> 4 months left on the concentrate shelf life when it
> arrived) -- I
> just got a bad 5L E-6 kit from B&H.
>
> I can't be sure, since I mix partial kits, keeping the
> concentrates
> out of vacuum and drawing them from the bottles with clean
> syringes.
> This isn't, of course, the Kodak Approved procedure and I
> am pretty
> sure that consequently, Kodak won't be too eager to help
> me. But
> the first run of film I did in this kit, about a month
> ago, was
> fine -- and generally I can keep a kit for well over a
> year using
> this procedure, if I have to, with no problem with the
> developed
> film. Today's tanks of film (sadly I ran two at once)
> showed all
> the signs of exhausted first developer. There was a good
> strong
> vacuum when I opened the bottles, so that's not it -- and
> it was
> not particularly hot where they were stored, either, and I
> know
> I got the mixtures right and times/temps were correct.
>
> I wonder when the last time Kodak made the 5L E6 kits was.
> Has
> anyone else received a bad one lately? With bad results
> from
> both B&H and Adorama I'm not even sure where to turn for a
> new
> one.
>
> --
> Thor Lancelot Simon
> t...@rek.tjls.com
> "Even experienced UNIX users occasionally enter rm *.*
> at the UNIX
> prompt only to realize too late that they have removed
> the wrong
> segment of the directory structure." - Microsoft WSS
> whitepaper
Have you tried Freestyle? They seem to be quite
reliable. I have the advantage that they are only a short
drive from my home but they seem to have a very good mail
order reputation.
--
Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickb...@ix.netcom.com